Dapper little Swiss President Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, gave audience on Sept. 10 to leaders of the Swiss Nationalist (Nazi) Movement. His office said afterward that the Nationalists assured the President they were not acting and would not act in concert with any foreign power—i.e., Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, democratic Swiss resentment boiled last week and parties representing 126 out of the 187 seats in the Swiss National Council issued a statement publicly regretting that the President had received the Nationalists. Many Swiss smelled "appeasement" by President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Völkischer...
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